http://weblog.dakao.org Bemusing Ol' Scratch an' his mooncalves since Ought Three. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:34:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...of divers topics lately arisen within my sphere: Advancement Blood, mine (again) Consciousness, the question of Employment Exam preparation Expansion, activity participation Faith, questions of Family, fundamental trade-offs Friends, new and old Growth, personal Imperative, Kantian Purpose, eternal Swordplay, brilliant It's not the life we would have chosen, but it is the life we have made for ourselves. Things are tentatively set to be really ... http://weblog.dakao.org/2009/02/23/a-summation/ :D Hurricane Ike has made access and communication difficult, so you can imagine my surprise when I got a couple calls from friends old and new. Some I had tried calling and some I had not. But regardless of whether we've reached each other, it's good to have friends. I got one ... http://weblog.dakao.org/2008/09/15/an-unexpected-call/ On Tuesday, I attended a memorial service for Emma Hutchinson, the younger daughter of my favorite professor. I met her when she was 7, and wondered how she would turn out, growing up in such a wild environment full of college kids and all their rambunctious excesses. She spent more ... http://weblog.dakao.org/2008/08/30/impermanence/ I need to get me a great gulpin' 40 of Shut-the-hell-up. Sigh. Life signs stable. Strong pulse. Interesting work, and lots of it. HEMA going super-strong. All of it but a house of cards, laid low by the breath of a missed call. Ah, wherezzat 40? <hic> http://weblog.dakao.org/2008/07/15/big-cans/ "Mommy, why is that man in the car next to ours holding a can or something to his ear?" "I don't know, dear." "There's blood. He frightens me." "I'm scared too, honey." Between cupping a block of ice to my left ear with my offhand b/c driving with proper signaling trumps habit, and realizing ... http://weblog.dakao.org/2008/05/30/cellular-soup-cans/ More linkage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20080523.html This is a brilliant metaphor for my recent work actions -- solving problems with clients by means of the exuberant application of violence and reason in carefully-metered portions. The only consequences that matter are the ones you wanted. Well, I say that, but I don't believe it. It'd be more accurate ... http://weblog.dakao.org/2008/05/22/finding-your-metier/ ...Or just crazy. [People not interested in HEMA can skip down to web links of late. Be forewarned that this entry reads like a Joseph Conrad story printed on cheap, splintery Soviet TP.] Gawd, CAS Iberia put out some awful thing on sword and shield combat. I won't link it, b/c it ... http://weblog.dakao.org/2008/05/21/science-is-crazy-delicious/ OK, as usual, the baggage crap no one wants to read comes last, after the post split. Saw the 40th anniversary Hello, Hamlet show last night with Dorota. She's not a huge musical fan, but even she enjoyed a fair bit of it. In a word, it was awesome. Totally lived ... http://weblog.dakao.org/2008/03/23/hamlet-eh-sounds-like-some-kind-of-egg-special/ ...plus 119 hrs 55 mins precisely and 1 respiratory infection. http://weblog.dakao.org/2008/03/19/2284-miles-later/ It's off we are to Chicago. http://weblog.dakao.org/2008/03/14/hi-ho-hi-ho/